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Good medicine: homeopathy

6 Citations2012
D. Spence
BMJ : British Medical Journal

Today, homeopathy is medicine’s whipping boy, repeatedly and systematically beaten to the ground, yet despite explaining that the tablets are just placebos, homeopathic always gets up to take another beating.

Abstract

It was an intentional overdose. To prove a point I poured about 30 tiny tablets into my mouth and crunched them down. Because scientifically, I do not believe that these homeopathic pills have any active ingredient.⇑ Today, homeopathy is medicine’s whipping boy, repeatedly and systematically beaten to the ground. Yet despite explaining that the tablets are just placebos, homeopathy always gets up to take another beating. Some homeopathy is funded by the NHS, through general practice, and in the few homeopathic hospitals. This fact enrages the growling commissars of evidenced …